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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1945
Page
7
A condemned man entered the death chamber calmly and offered no last statement. He was executed by electric chair at 12 03 and pronounced dead six minutes later after the state board of pardons denied clemency the previous day. Globe News Want Ads Get Results.
Pfc. Oliver R. Frisbie, 23, veteran of the 36th Division, arrived home after discharge. He served nearly five years, overseas since April 1943, and earned the Purple Heart and Combat Infantryman Badge with four European campaign stars for Naples-Foggia, Rome Arno, Southern France, and Rhineland victories.
Congress aims to empower President Truman with three major bills ahead of the Big Three talks with Churchill and Stalin. The Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act passes House and heads to Senate, Bretton Woods monetary bill moves through, and the United Nations Charter awaits Senate ratification after hearings.
Mr. and Mrs. Lovell Christian and daughter Dianne of Laredo join Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Ince at 3900 Polk while Mrs. A. A. Christain and son Dwane from Hereford stay there as guests at 109 West Thirteenth.
In Washington the Southern opposition floated a compromise to keep the FEPC as a temporary agency with limited funding to block a move to permanent legal status. A discharge petition in the House aims to create a permanent FEPC, but about 130 signatures exist so far. Roxbury Latin School in Boston marked its 200th birthday.
San Jacinto Kiwanis President Max Bulloch said the Fourth of July picnic in San Jacinto Park netted about $3,000 from more than $4,000 in receipts. The funds will fund a youth recreation center on three lots on Louisiana Street off Sixth Avenue, with about 15 000 attendees and broad merchant city cooperation.
Shultz A. Hartgrove a 33 year old Concho County civic leader and rancher died when his pickup collided with a loaded melon truck five miles south of Paint Rock in heavy rain. The melon truck carried C C Legg of Pampa. Hartgrove had been returning home from Eden where as Concho AAA chairman he worked on records.
Dr. Charles Claude Selecman 70, Dallas bishop and Council of Bishops president, married Mrs. Pierre B. Mason 61 of Hollywood in Pasadena. The ceremony by Dr. Albert Day was unattended. They will stay in Santa Barbara till Aug 1 after previously marrying and widowed. Selecman led Trinity Church LA 1913 1920 and headed Southern Methodist University 1923 1938.
Julius Harper, 19, a Black man convicted in Harris County for a slaying, was executed by electric chair in Huntsville on July 7. The case centers on a Harris County murder leading to the state capital death sentence.
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